Shapiro, in his budget address Tuesday, called on legislators to work with him to regulate the 70,000 so-called skill games ...

In his 2025-26 budget address, Governor Josh Shapiro proposed new regulations for lottery skills games. In his address, ...

During his budget address, Governor Shapiro reintroduced the idea of taxing skill games and legalizing recreational marijuana for adult use to bring in more revenue.

“At a commonsense 16% tax rate, we estimate skill games could provide $250 million to the state in the first year. That projection will significantly drop under the rate included in the governor ...

“First, we’ll fill the funding gap for older adults that skill games caused in the first place, and second, we’ll provide an influx to the general fund to strengthen our Commonwealth and ...